SN45:173 Clinging
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1"Bhikkhus, there are these four kinds of clinging. What four?
Clinging to sensual pleasure,
clinging to views,
clinging to rules and vows,
clinging to a doctrine of self.
These are the four kinds of clinging.
The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these four kinds of clinging,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning.
What Noble Eightfold Path?
Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu develops right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration,
- which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release;
- which has as its final goal the removal of lust, the removal of hatred, the removal of delusion;
- which has the Deathless as its ground, the Deathless as its destination, the Deathless as its final goal;
- which slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbāna.
This Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these four kinds of clinging,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning."
This sutta may be fully expanded in accordance with the fourfold method employed in SN45.161.
1"Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, upādānāni. Katamāni cattāri?
Kāmupādānaṁ, diṭṭhupādānaṁ, sīlabbatupādānaṁ, attavādupādānaṁ – imāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri upādānāni.
Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ upādānānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya … pe …
ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.
Tatiyaṁ.
